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MacBook and MacBook Pro update fixes frozen keyboards

Apple has released the MacBook and MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1, which …

When I mentioned the infamous MacBook/MacBook Pro keyboard freezing issues in November, a whole host of people chimed in about their various experiences with the problem. The freezes varied in duration and in the measures necessary to resolve them, but most people found the problem to be quite annoying and detrimental to productivity. The keyboard woes should now be over, though, since Apple has released the MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.1, which purportedly fixes the problem.

I wish Apple offered a bit more information about what exactly it fixed, but as usual, all the company says is that the update fixes the issue. The 1.1 update is a measly 979KB, so I guess the fix wasn't a very big one. The update requires the 10.5.1 update to have been installed, and can be grabbed from either the link above or from Software Update. I just hope that after Apple's attempts at an iMac fix earlier this year, it squashed this bug the first time around.

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